Dear Trading Friend, As a reminder, you are getting email from us because you either once asked to go on this Traders Knowledge Ezine list, or requested info on a trading related subject we normally cover via this communications method, or you are a client of ours. Your email address and other information will be kept confidential per our online Privacy Pledge. Of course, you may opt-off this Traders EZine at any time if you do not find this trading knowledge useful. We are glad to hear the two free real-time non-delayed charts on the E-Mini S&P and Mini Nasdaq markets have been so popular. Thanks to everyone who has contacted us letting us know how they appreciate the free real-time tick charts. Though some of you have already cancelled your paid real-time data feeds, I am still collecting tick data (at least for now) from E-Signal. As you know, it’s way overpriced at approx’ $150-mo., just for the one or two markets we actively monitor and trade. One reason we still use E-Signal is the free data feed not being currently compatible with Omega Tradestation. We still need to use Tradestation for trading and our Real Success 2 Trading Course, which utilizes both paid and free real-time data, and end-of-day data sources for the taping sessions. Many times I have compared the two data feeds on my screen at the same time by putting them both up by opening two browsers and putting a chart on each side of my monitor. There is no noticeable difference in speed between the free data and paid E-Signal feed. The free quotes are definitely non-delayed and the price changes appear basically simultaneously in side-by-side real-time comparisons. In fact, the free feed via our website may even be “better” than the paid feed since every single tick appears to be reported, whereas there is much evidence E-Signal (and other data providers do not report all ticks). This is something I have been suspicious of for many years and could never get satisfactory answers on this issue from places like E-Signal, PC Quote, Bonneville and Futures Source. It’s really incredible how you can now get totally free real-time data and charts on these markets and it some ways (such as tick volume) it’s actually better than the grossly over-priced feeds from data vendors. Much of the high cost is due to the so-called Exchange Fees. These fees have been waived by the CME as part of a successful pilot program to make the Mini Markets more popular. These charts are online via our website www.webtrading.com almost 24-hrs a day, as these markets trade electronically around-the-clock. We know many of you only trade the E-Mini-S&P-500 Market because it’s an “easy” market to trade via the Internet and also has comparative “low risk.” Some of you have already reported you have cancelled your high-priced accounts at the data vendors and are trading using the free charts and saving lots of money in data expenses each month. We also may be canceling it soon since our free charts are working so well. When we first started this project a few weeks ago, the programmer we hired wrote code to extract it from the quote.com website, and without their annoying and distracting banner ads. He apparently though it was OK to do so since they were transmitting it free themselves over the Internet. Plus, the CME was sending the quotes free and waiving their normally high priced Exchange Fees to everyone, including quote.com They must have been monitoring our website as within 2-days of putting the charts online we received email notices saying we can not use their (Advertising Free) Java Applet. However, if we agree to pay them from $4,000 to $8,000 per month for the technology, it’s OK! This is not a misprint but how much they actually wanted from us! Of course, that’s prohibitively expensive to say the least. When we asked why the feed was so much money, they basically said in not so many words they only wanted this type of business from heavy-hitter large corporate and big brokerage websites who could afford their amazingly high fees, not smaller trading sites like ours. Therefore, we are now forced to carry their distracting and screen cluttering Banner and Text Ads, including some ridiculous flashing and rotating dumb banner ads for places like online dating services and online casino betting places, etc. The least they could do is have investment and trading related ads rather than unrelated stupid ads! In addition, to make their ads even more annoying, they constantly refresh and repost them every 30-seconds or so. This is extremely annoying but we will simply have to tolerate it for now, at least until we can get programming work done so we can eventually offer our own free real-time charts, without ads. Still not sure it can be done, but we are working on it. In the meantime try ignoring those stupid ads, and avoid clicking on them or it may be hard to return to the free chart and our website. We plan to offer many more free real-time charts in the future, especially if we manage to get the programming done so we can be independent and not rely on someone else’s technology. The free real-time charts are located on our primary site https://www.webtrading.com on the front page right-side-bar and also available at one of Webtrading's Micro-Websites https://www.commodity-price-charts.com This site also gives free access to delayed data and charts on most of the active futures markets. On a different subject, we would like to thank the traders who already ordered our Real Success 2nd Edition Video Tape Trading Course. All the details are located here https://www.traders.org/realsuccess2.htm We are working hard on it, it’s scheduled for shipment approx’ the first week of August. This is a complete trading course and comes with a (limited) money-back guaranty after 1-year. Due to the shipping delay (caused by new recording equipment for better quality videos) you can still get it at the special price of $877 for new clients, or $297 for upgrade clients. Also, the 10% Early-Order discount for both new and upgrade clients, and the Certificate good for $200 off our next Trading Seminar Workshops have been extended until Aug 1st. The Ordering Agreement is here https://www.traders.org/rsorder.htm Our free Traders Search Engine to research most all trading products, services, systems and methods, is not being used as much as it should be, what with its thousands of pages of free trading knowledge on most all trading subjects. It's always online at www.webtrading.com/links/searchengine.htm It may very well be the best available source of free trading knowledge to help you succeed. Please us it - it’s free! In our last Ezine we indicated we would reprint the Joe Ross emails in this issue. Since this Ezine is already longer than planned, it’s better if we don’t make it even longer, for your easy online reading. Therefore we will have another special Ezine before months-end which will include the interesting Joe Ross story and Ross Trading information. In the meantime, we have a free Special Report with content by both Joe Ross and his main nemesis, The Late Bruce Babcock on Joe located at https://www.webtrading.com/ross.htm Our next issue will have all the interesting emails we have been exchanging recently with Joe. The interesting (unedited) emails reveal some really surprising things, including Joe's allegations about some people impersonating Joe and his wife (to yours truly), and alleged false information of Joe having cancer and odd business practices. It's very interesting reading. Joe has authorized our re-publishing these emails. All the best, Dave Green